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Vagrancy Handicap

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Inaugurated
  
1948

Surface
  
Dirt

Distance
  
1,308 m

Purse
  
150,000 USD

Website
  
Belmont Park, NYTA

Track
  
Left-handed

Distance
  
Furlong

Location
  
Belmont Park Elmont, New York, United States

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

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The Vagrancy Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of May/early June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The event is open to fillies and mares, age four and older. The Grade III race is contested on dirt over a distance of six and one-half furlongs.

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Inaugurated in 1948 at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York, there was no race from 1949 through 1951. It was hosted by the Aqueduct track from inception through 1955 and again in 1960, 1963–1967, 1975, and 1977-1986. Over the years it has been contested at various distances:

  • 1 116 miles : 1948, 1952
  • 7 furlongs : 1953-1997
  • 6.5 furlongs : 1998 to present
  • The race is named in honor of Vagrancy, the Champion three-year-old filly and champion handicap mare of 1942 owned by Belair Stud and trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons.

    In 1955, the Vagrancy Handicap was run in two divisions.

    This race was downgraded to a Grade III for its 2014 running.

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    Records

    Speed record:

  • 1:14.46 - Bear Fan (2004) (at current distance of 6.5 furlongs)
  • 1:20.80 - Grecian Flight (1988) (at previous distance of 7 furlongs)
  • Most wins:

  • 2 - Sky Beauty (1994, 1995)
  • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Angel Cordero, Jr. (1977, 1984, 1987, 1989)
  • 4 - John Velazquez (1999, 2001, 2004, 2005)
  • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 5 - H. Allen Jerkens (1968, 1969, 1989, 1994, 1995)
  • Most wins by an owner:

  • 2 - Harry La Montagne (1948, 1957)
  • 2 - Ethel D. Jacobs (1955, 1965)
  • 2 - Calumet Farm (1956, 1961)
  • 2 - Meadow Stable (1955, 1963)
  • 2 - Wheatley Stable (1964, 1966)
  • 2 - Hobeau Farm (1968, 1969)
  • 2 - Eugene V. Klein (1986, 1987)
  • 2 - Georgia E. Hofmann (1994, 1995)
  • References

    Vagrancy Handicap Wikipedia


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